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title: Day yent nuttne wuh de Debble cant do ef eh mek up eh mine ter um. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Day yent nuttne wuh de Debble cant do ef eh mek up eh mine ter um. Who acts: Day. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 22

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Day yent nuttne wuh de Debble cant do ef eh mek up eh mine ter um.

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**Who acts:** Day · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** ef

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:8:22
# text = Day yent nuttne wuh de Debble cant do ef eh mek up eh mine ter um.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	yent	yent	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	nuttne	nuttne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Debble	Debble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
15	ter	ter	X	FW	_	16	compound	_	_
16	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Day | ef |  |  |  | mek ter um *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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